Sicile
\si.sil\
The verdict
“Sicile” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,913
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus grande île de Méditerranée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sicile · Sicile · French
Sicile · rank #9,913 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,913
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sentiers
Nearest frequency peer: sentiers (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sicile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- répandue
répandue
90,090 corpus weight
- sentiers
sentiers
90,089 corpus weight
- Sicile
Sicile
90,088 corpus weight
- sire
sire
90,087 corpus weight
- souhaitons
souhaitons
90,086 corpus weight
- soupçons
soupçons
90,085 corpus weight
What this shows « Sicile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sicile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.sil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sicile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sicile (IPA \si.sil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,913 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sicile, with forms such as "iscile", "sciile", and "siccile". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "socle", "sigle", "smile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Sicile, spelled S-I-C-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plus grande île de Méditerranée.
- 2Région d’Italie correspondant à cette île.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sicile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette Messinaise était une petite femme appelée Rosina, fort brune, mais portant dans ses yeux noirs et fendus en amande toutes les ardeurs du soleil de la Sicile.
Il se rappelle que lorsqu’il avait douze ans, et qu’il était berger dans la montagne, il a pris part à la razzia d’un village voisin ; haine et représailles de village à village, vendetta : la vieille Abkhasie peut, sous cet angle, se comparer à la Corse ou à la Sicile.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iscile
- sciile
- siccile
- siciel
- sicille
- siclie
- siicle
- ssicile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sicile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sicile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).